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Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022, pp. 224, ISBN: 978–1,474,618,120

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  1. See for example the classic contemporary, and markedly anti-Semitic, critique in J.A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (London, 1938; 1st published 1902); also R. Koebner & H.D. Schmidt, Imperialism: The Story and Significance of a Political Word, 1840–1960 (Cambridge, 1964), and Bernard Porter, Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge (London, 2008).

  2. Sir John Seeley, The Expansion of England (London, 1883); Joseph Chamberlain, “The True Conception of Empire,” (1897), in Elleke Boehmer (ed.), Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870–1918 (Oxford, 1998); Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), also in Boehmer (ed.), Empire Writing.

  3. Dane Kennedy, The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire (London, 2018); Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists: What the British Really Thought about Empire (Oxford, 2004).

  4. A sample might include Dierk Walter, Colonial Violence: European Empires and the Use of Force (London, 2017); Kim Wagner, “Savage Warfare: Violence and the Rule of Colonial Difference in Early British Counterinsurgency,” History Workshop Journal, 85 (2018); Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (London, 2022); David Anderson, Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of the Empire (London, 2005).

  5. For example, John Pilger, Hidden Agendas (London, 1998), 19–21.

  6. UK Agrees to Negotiate with Mauritius over Handover of Chagos Islands | Chagos Islands | The Guardian, 4 November 20,222.

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Reid, R. Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy. Soc 60, 261–263 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00817-0

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